They met in 2006 at the Screen Actors Guild Awards -- "I was in the green room and she passed through and I was bowled over by her beauty" -- and became friends. “The last couple of years, we kind of fell in love,” he tells the website. “She keeps up with me.”

Van Dyke has four children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce, and lived with girlfriend Michelle Triola for more than 30 years, until her death in 2009. (Side note: Before getting together with Van Dyke, Triola was the long-term girlfriend of actor Lee Marvin, and when they split, she sued him for community assets even though they never married. In the landmark palimony case, she won the right to sue him but ultimately lost her claim to the money he made during their relationship.)